Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Much of Cambridge's "blighted area" (as the City prefers to call it) is absentee property and land that is so tied-up in wills that the present heirs cannot sell it. The only way these properties can be improved is by the City buying the land under eminent domain...
...trust that the cession will be peaceful," the students said, "but we are prepared to fight for our lawful domain, in the name of justice and peace, if your aggression persists...
Inviting Burglars. In New Orleans, Kefauver drove into town past big neon signs advertising Costello's swank Beverly Club. New Orleans is the domain of Costello's partner, "Dandy Phil" Kastel, and of Carlos ("The Little Man'') Marcello, a squat Sicilian who controls the racing wire for Chicago's Capone syndicate. Marcello is a partner with Kastel and Costello in the Beverly Club, owns a jukebox company, slot machines and a fleet of shrimping vessels. Last year he publicly pistol-whipped a man in the heart of New Orleans, but not a single witness...
Jovial George Stoddard (whose five children irreverently call him "Old Moon Face") rules his new domain with a mixture of Rotarian good humor and an insistence on standards He takes easily to picnics and poker but he also keeps a scholar's eye on teaching and research...
...17th Century English traders built a fort on the Gold Coast, competed fiercely with Dutch, Danes and Portuguese for slaves and gold. Early in the 19th Century the slave traffic was abolished. Today, in a jungle domain almost as large as Oregon, the leading enterprises are cocoa production, gold and manganese mining...